Poetry

[Intro: Marcus King]

I seen the light, yeah

[Chorus: Marcus King]

D-d-d-die about me

Oh gee, it can't be defined by me

When I set it in motion

Never question the motive

Mhm, mhm

[Verse 1: Common]

Whether facing the East or facing the beast

I'ma keep fighting 'til the world say, "Peace"

Hollywood guilt put a nigga in grease

I'm God-bodied but devil's in the deets

But still I listen when Mohammad speaks

And get a good work when PT preach

My mama used to teach so it's lessons to learn

Before I step and repеat, I step and I earn

I met a girl's daddy, hе was kept in a urn

The world as we knew it, it was destined to burn

My success is a verb, it's a blessing to serve

My presence is heard, I'm investing in words

Like Nikki Giovanni or Amiri Baraka

Jessica Care Moore, Morgan Parker

Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison

Poetry in motion, we moving forward today

[Chorus: Marcus King]

D-d-d-die about me

Oh gee, it can't be defined by me

When I set it in motion

Never question the motive

Mhm, mhm

[Verse 2: Common]

We walk-walk the line and talk-talk the rhyme

It's from the sky, it's often a sign

I stomped into time, not to fall in line

What's bound in Heaven, on Earth, I'll buy

I combine strength, poetic liberation

In a nation that asks me for identification

I'm a Haitian, I'm Jamaican

I'm forsaken, I'm mistaken identity

I'm Medgar Evers' memory

I'm my father's good and bad tendencies

I'm a man that love music but don't love the industry

Don't like when fake folk grin at me

I love Public Enemy

I love the messages my love be sending me

Chicago chase so I love being finicky

Love calling him "Cuzzo", even if he ain't kin to me

Love drinking wine while my homie drink Hennessy

I love poetry when it becomes infinity

[Chorus: Marcus King]

D-d-d-die about me

Oh gee, it can't be defined by me

When I set it in motion

Never question the motive

Mhm, mhm

[Instrumental Break: Isaiah Sharkey]